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How to find devices on your local network
Authored by: Just Fred on Jun 12, '06 06:10:22AM
This does NOT work in my network environment. Mine is a strange setup, however: I use the 169.254.x.x addressing scheme (the Automatic Private IP Addressing [APIPA] for reasons I will not go into here. When I attempt to ping the broadcast address (either 169.254.0.255 or 169.254..255.255) I either receive a single ping reply or none at all.

I believe the problem lies in the rather unique status this address range has. (A brief discussion of this may be found at http://www.duxcw.com/faq/network/autoip.htm).

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